Is Kontentmachine legal?

by seoed
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Hi,

most of you know this tool. It scrapes articles based on your keywords from different directories and also blogs.

Then it mixes it to get unique articles (some say it is not really readable but these are used for backlinks only).

However, when those articles are taken from those sites and directories, isn't it illegale to do that? I mean, wouldn't we have to ask for permission in order to use them?

It's strange that no one is talking about it, or am I missing something?
#kontentmachine #legal
  • Profile picture of the author kpmedia
    If somebody sued them, they'd likely lose, yes.
    It's a variation of plagiarism.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by seoed View Post

    isn't it illegale to do that?
    This is a very bad place to ask for, or to take, legal advice, but it sounds to me, from your description, as if what it produces must pretty clearly be a "derivative work", within the meaning of the law of copyright, and it "must" therefore be contravening the original authors' civil-law rights. (But I'm not a lawyer!).

    Originally Posted by seoed View Post

    It's strange that no one is talking about it, or am I missing something?
    I don't know. I'd never heard of it at all, myself, but I have no interest in this automated nonsense which tends to produce unreadable garbage, because I wouldn't be able to (or want to) get that published anyway, and it wouldn't do me any good at all, even if I could. It's obviously not anything that an article marketer would pay any attention to.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      Seoed,

      To me, the question is not whether Kontentmachine is legal or not . . .

      The more important question is . . .

      What do you want associated with your name and business?

      Do you want high quality, relevant, original and unique content? Or do you want to settle for scraped, stolen, rehashed, recycled content?

      It doesn't matter if Kontentmachine's product is only used for backlinks. They are pointing to your site and they say something about your desire to "game" the system.

      It's your choice.

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  • Profile picture of the author seoed
    To me, the question is not whether Kontentmachine is legal or not . . .
    To me this is a very important question. If it's illegal I don't touch it, not matter how good or bad the service is.

    You have to keep in mind that this kind of content is generally not used to build your backlinks directly to your main site. It is mostly used as an addition to your main backlinks. I know that you will probably also don't like this kind of strategy, probably because you want to get your backlinks naturally, right?
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      I'm in agreement with Lexy. It's not a matter of the legality of it so much as why on earth would you do that?

      I call it shortsightedness, not thinking in the long term, not having a business plan or goal.

      Don't you realize that in this business reputation is everything? Sully it from the get go with extreme garbage with your name attached to it and you're dead in the water, you've just sunk your boat before her first voyage.

      But maybe you could use it to write your business's obituary. :p

      Terra
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